# More evidence conspiracy theorists are a special kind of special **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062 "2012-01-29T05:24:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/1 "2012-01-29T05:24:36Z")
[ > [@](#): > > In Study 1 (n = 137), the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered. In Study 2 (n = 102), the more participants believed that Osama Bin Laden was already dead when U.S. special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the more they believed he is still alive. ]([http://m.spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/18/1948550611434786](http://m.spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/18/1948550611434786)) The more I read the internet, the more I am my own grandpa. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/2 "2012-01-29T05:52:32Z")
So, Princess Diana and Osama bin Laden are liches? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/3 "2012-01-29T06:16:04Z")
Wake Up, sheeple!! Learn the Truth _ **THEY** _ don’t want you to Know about Schrödinger’s cat!!! ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/4 "2012-01-29T07:02:01Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Wake Up, sheeple!! Learn the Truth _ **THEY** _ don’t want you to Know about Schrödinger’s cat!!! Nice. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/5 "2012-01-29T07:21:43Z")
Thats not fair really, all this identified are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/6 "2012-01-29T07:25:07Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Thats not fair really, all this identified are idiots. Isn’t that the point? ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/7 "2012-01-29T07:54:35Z")
That Mitchell and Webb look, a BBC sketch show, had good bit about Diana conspiracies. [That Mitchell and Webb Look - Diana Assassination - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4meFC1ee7Q) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/8 "2012-01-29T08:06:28Z")
Princess Di _IS_ Osama Bin Laden. Have you ever seen them together? ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/9 "2012-01-29T08:06:50Z")
One of my husband’s friends claims heartburn was ‘invented’ by pharmaceutical companies 70 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/10 "2012-01-29T08:07:18Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Isn’t that the point? Well I would say there is difference between those so paranoid about government coverups they believe mutually exclusive scenarios, and conspiracy theorists. A cryptozoologist might be able to convince me there are still undocumented animals to be discovered on earth, but then you have some who believe psychic bigfoot lives in their backyard. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/11 "2012-01-29T11:22:25Z")
> [@grude](#): > > … some who believe psychic bigfoot lives in their backyard. I never said backyard as I don’t have one, I’m keeping him in my closet until he tells me next week winning numbers. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062/12 "2012-01-29T18:54:11Z")
I wonder if the same people believe both that [Obama was teleported to Mars by the CIA](http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/) and that he’s a dangerous anti-American Kenyan-Indonesian socialist Manchurian candidate.